Overview
- Comprehensive framework that is not only based on numerous interviews with management practitioners, but also theoretically substantiated
- Holistic approach, consideration of different fields of research (organisation theory, strategic management, system dynamics, sustainable development, business models)
- Practical company examples from various industry sectors (food, transport, automotive, building technology, chemicals, etc.)
Part of the book series: Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management (SPLCEM)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Theoretical Foundation of Green Business Model Transformations
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Towards a Practical Management Approach
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Conclusion and Outlook
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PART IV
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Back Matter
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About this book
Environmental sustainability creates both tremendous business opportunities and formidable threats to established companies across virtually all industry sectors. Yet many companies tackle the issue in a superficial or passive way, rather than considering fundamental changes to their existing business models. By ignoring the opportunities of Green Business Model Transformations, companies exclude themselves from a large variety of potential means to create economic value. In addition to ordinary product and process innovations, they can change “the rules of the game” within an industry towards environmental sustainability.
Green Business Model Transformations, however, are challenging ventures: New, green business models with all their uncertainties and inherent complex systemic characteristics are difficult to design, assess, and implement successfully, particularly in the context of established companies that often entail complex structures and considerable inertia.
As a result, there is a great need for guidance in management practice. This publication addresses this need with a general approach to Managing Green Business Model Transformations that is based on a broad theoretical foundation, illustrated by many real-world examples from various industry sectors.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Green Business Model Transformations
Authors: Axel Sommer
Series Title: Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28848-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-28847-0Published: 21 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44787-7Published: 12 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28848-7Published: 20 May 2012
Series ISSN: 2194-0541
Series E-ISSN: 2194-055X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 402
Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Innovation/Technology Management, Sustainable Development, Organization, Management